Things I learned
while growing as a
UX Designer
Stephanie Walter - 2020
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User Researcher &
Product Designer
Mobile expert. Pixel & CSS Lover
stephaniewalter.design @WalterStephanie
🦊
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Love for design, art,
computer & languages
Foreign Languages
Bachelor (LEA)
Webdesign and
Foreign Languages
Master (CAWEB)
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Working as an in-house
Product and UI designer
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Just because you are out
of school doesn’t mean
you stop learning.
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Start building a network as
soon as possible. Attend
conferences, meet-ups, etc.
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Working as UX & UI
designer for a web
agency
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Ask why, 5 times helps dig
further and closer to actual
user and client needs
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Don’t get discouraged if you
don’t get to do a lot of user
research right away. Maybe
try collecting indirect data
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Literature
review
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Analytics
(Google
Analytics,
Matomo, etc.)
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Server logs,
URL analysis,
etc.
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Session replay
with Hotjar,
Fullstory, etc.
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Support and/ or
training team
has a lot of
data
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Marketing team
runs surveys (be
careful with
biases)
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Online reviews
(stores,
forums, etc.)
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Teaching is amazing, it forces
you to rethink everything about
your own work and methods.
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Working for an HCI
Research Group in a
University
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Many of the user research
methods & tools we use can
help us build services beyond
digital UIs.
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Building
collaborative
learning spaces
for students
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As long as I have a solid
plan, I know I can improvise
and it’s going to be fine.
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Working in a design
studio for a consulting
company
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Roles and responsibilities
of UX design often need
to be defined.
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UX design is not about making things
pretty, yet this is hard to understand
for other people, especially in super
dev driven environments.
UX design is not about making things
pretty, yet this is hard to understand
for other people, especially in super
dev driven environments.
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Working as a “UX
Researcher & Designer
consultant”
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Analysis, Interviews,
Research, Flows, IA,
Prototypes, Testing,
etc.
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Being an “external
consultant” can be a
double edge sword.
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There’s some sort of
“magic wand myth”
around UX design.
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Turning developers into
design allies makes your life
so much easier.
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Building a
design system
documentation
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UX deliverables
can also help
dev teams
Task flow
Screen flow
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Show don’t tell
with interactive
prototypes
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This job can be mentally
exhausting, be kind to
yourself, take breaks,
self-care first!
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Q and A session!
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User Researcher &
Product Designer
Mobile expert. Pixel & CSS Lover
stephaniewalter.design @WalterStephanie
🦊